Ted Posted May 9, 2013 Report Share Posted May 9, 2013 (edited) Second time in 6 months! Came home last night to put my new shrimp from Jason in a tank and, spur of the moment, decided to feed the 90 gallon while they were acclimatizing. Trailed my fingers in the water (which I never do) and found that the water was really really warm. Turned down the heater and ran and got a thermometer. The water, heater set at 74, was over 94 degrees and rising. The heater had still been on. Unplugged the heater and everyone seems to be OK so far. Lost an entire tank of clown loaches due to the same thing last fall except that when we came home everyone was dead. The heater is an Eheim Jager 3608090 250 watt model. The last one was the same brand but only 100 watts. I guess I will slowly be replacing these in all our tanks. Theresa Edited May 9, 2013 by Ted Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaykit Posted May 9, 2013 Report Share Posted May 9, 2013 I had one of my Jagers fail the exact same way recently. Just kept pumping out heat! Didn't lose anyone thankfully. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mahawka Posted May 10, 2013 Report Share Posted May 10, 2013 Did you calibrate your heater? To calibrate the older models you have to pull out the Blue nub on top and adjust to the current water temp. Then push the blue nub back in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ted Posted May 10, 2013 Author Report Share Posted May 10, 2013 No and thanks. I will look at the rest. This had been running for about 5 years. Theresa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eugene Posted May 10, 2013 Report Share Posted May 10, 2013 Do you have a good power filter that the heater plugs into. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cainechow Posted May 10, 2013 Report Share Posted May 10, 2013 Do you have a good power filter that the heater plugs into. Do you mean like a surge protection power bar like for computers? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Claudiohv Posted May 13, 2013 Report Share Posted May 13, 2013 Dude I get the fancy fluvals, I'm sick of failing heaters. The good heaters are the one back in the day (in my experience) one of my tanks came with a 7+ year old heater and still going... Got rid of it..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Znaika Posted May 14, 2013 Report Share Posted May 14, 2013 (edited) One reliable protection against "cooking" your tank is to have a heater, which won't do it, even if it jams: 5 gal 25 watt 10 gal 50 watt 20 gal 50 watt 25 gal 75 watt 40 gal 100 watt 50 gal 150 watt 65 gal 200 watt 75 gal 250 watt Edited May 14, 2013 by Znaika Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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